Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
Yes it is. But it is even more funny if there's a slight connection to sense in it.
Is Nonsense Funny?
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Hamlet
Manic Depressive
To me, nonsense is either utterly hilarious, or completely and utterly annoying. I generally appreciate it.
Am I the only person who finds Reves and Mortimer funny?
I think sometimes you have to come from Teeside, like them (and me) to like them sometimes.
Am I the only person who finds Reves and Mortimer funny?
I think sometimes you have to come from Teeside, like them (and me) to like them sometimes.
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
I think they're funny.
Panda
Metal head
That depends on whether it's funny or infantile nonsense.
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
As opposed to all that highly intelligent nonsense?
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
Do you dispute the existence of highly intelligent nonsense?
Perfection
The Great Head.
Yeah thats what the American congress spits out. 
Obssesed Nuker
Resident Nuclear Launcher
Originally posted by Perfection
Yeah thats what the American congress spits out.
Ahh yes goverment nonsense... Sounds like they are having a talk show meeting rather than trying too decide whether too let Bush invade Iraq, or nuke it, or let it nuke us(or some other country) than nuke it.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Only you and I, Obssesed Nuker, truely live up to our screen names.
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
Yes but if it is highly intelligent then it isn't nonsense.
Panda
Metal head
Monty Python produced some highly intelligent and hilarious nonsense while Adam Sandler produces only highly infantile and non-funny nonsense.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Yes like the cheese shop
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
First of all Monty Python produced some highly intelligent material and they also produced nonsense. Their nonsense was not highly intelligent it was nonsense, very funny nonsense. Secondly, Mr Sandler doesn't produce nonsense, he produces for the want of a better phase "toilet humour". That is not nonsense.
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
Ah, interesting. I'm tempted to agree but on the other hand things can only be nonsense or have a sense. And I refuse to think that Adam Sandler's "work" has any sense.
Concerning the "highly intelligent nonsense" I'd like to point out that despite you don't see it it can still exist.
I suggest you visit some math lectures, I can assure you that you'll find it there.
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
I admit that maths lectures (well some of them) are highly intelligent but they are not nonsense. I just don't understand them. I lack the knowledge to understand then but with nonsense there is no knowledge that would help to understand it. That is the difference.
It doesn't have to make sense. Someone farting on a film is considered toilet humour. This is not nonsense but then again what sense does it make? Is farting nonsense?
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
That's not what I mean. I mean things that you can construct in a very thought extensive and complicated way (so that you already need some intelligence to follow that thinking) but that don't make any sense in the conclusion. Things that are, if seen as a complete picture, complete nonsense, but still intelligently composed. It's hard to explain...
Depends. The act of farting itself has a biological sense, but showing it in a movie has no direct sense. Of course it has an indirect sense, namely that of attracting infantile viewers in masses, but after all even the most nonsensial bits of Monty Python still had the sense of being broatcasted to entertain an audience. Which didn't give the actual content any sense. Same with the fart, just on a lower level (from my point of view, hopefully from yours as well).
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
I understand what you are saying but highly constructed nonsense is still nonsense. I refuse to believe there is a two-tier system of nonsense. NHS yes, nonsense no. It is like saying there is well constructed toilet humour. I mean I would be the first to admit that there is good toilet humour and bad toilet humour but that doesn't mean it is better constructed. It is still toilet humour. The same goes for nonsense.
Realism.
The fart is on a lower level to nothing. If used correctly (most important aspect of a good fart joke is surprise - only when it is completely unexpected [i.e. during a period drama for example] does it attain the high level).
Is it me or has this discussion become just a tad surreal?
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
Completely true. The only thing we disagree on is the wording of the thing. I never said "Highly intelligent nonsense" would be more, less or higher nonsense than any other. I just said it exists.
Both is true.
But I was talking about a fart in the Adam Sandler context, not in general.
And the problem is?
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
I can't see a problem in us slowly losing our grip on the real world and being thrust into the surreal land of the qualifications for nonsense and the comedic value of farting.
You need to get one of those X-Files-style posters, i.e. 'I believe'.
My mistake. Despite me being a bit of a fan of Mr Sandler I do agree that his use of toilet humour is slighly recrementitious at times. I suppose you can either take that much or you can't. In that way he is similar to Monty Python. I know many people who either don't get Monty Python at all or find it funny until it gets to extreme nonsense level.
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